Allocating Public and Private Resources Across Generations: Riding the Age Waves - Volume 2. International Studies in Population 3

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308

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699 g

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Springer Verlag GmbH

Beschreibung

In rapidly industrializing countries, demoraphic changes continue to have significant effects on the well-being of individuals and families, and as aggregate human and financial capital. These effects may be analyzed in terms of inter-generational transfers of time, money, goods, and services. The chapters in this volume greatly develop our understanding of the nature and measurement of transfers, their motives and mechanisms, and their macro-level dimensions, especially in the context of demographic transitions.
The chapters include original empirical analyses of datasets from some twenty countries taking the reader beyond the American context in order to test the applicability of some of the theories developed on the basis of American data. They extend the traditional analysis of inter-generational transfers by examining different types of transfers, namely goods, money, assets, time, co-residence and visits. Furthermore, the chapters go beyond the study of traditional parent – child transfers to examine transfers to kins and the bi-directionality of transfers.

Kurzbeschreibung

In rapidly industrializing countries, demographic changes continue to have significant effects on the well-being of individuals and families, and as aggregate human and financial capital. These effects may be analyzed in terms of inter-generational transfers of time, money, goods, and services. The chapters in this volume greatly develop our understanding of the nature and measurement of transfers, their motives and mechanisms, and their macro-level dimensions, especially in the context of demographic transitions.
The chapters include original empirical analyses of datasets from some twenty countries taking the reader beyond the American context in order to test the applicability of some of the theories developed on the basis of American data. They extend the traditional analysis of inter-generational transfers by examining different types of transfers, namely goods, money, assets, time, co-residence and visits. Furthermore, the chapters go beyond the study of traditional parent - child transfers to examine transfers to kins and the bi-directionality of transfers. TOC:From the contents
Preface. Acknowledgements. The Authors. Introduction.- Micro-level Perspectives. Substitution and Substitutability. Kinship Networks and Intergenerational Transfers. Stability and Change in Patterns of Intergenerational Transfers in Taiwan. Demographic Events and the Timing of Monetary Transfers. Maternal Co-residence and Contact. Son Preference, Marriage, and Intergenerational Transfer in Rural China.- Micro-macro and Macro-level Perspectives. Health and Labor Force Participation of the Elderly in Taiwan. Social Expenditures on Children and the Elderly in OECD Countries, 1980-1995. Index.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

From the contents§Preface. Acknowledgements. The Authors. Introduction.- Micro-level Perspectives. Substitution and Substitutability. Kinship Networks and Intergenerational Transfers. Stability and Change in Patterns of Intergenerational Transfers in Taiwan. Demographic Events and the Timing of Monetary Transfers. Maternal Co-residence and Contact. Son Preference, Marriage, and Intergenerational Transfer in Rural China.- Micro-macro and Macro-level Perspectives. Health and Labor Force Participation of the Elderly in Taiwan. Social Expenditures on Children and the Elderly in OECD Countries, 1980-1995. Index.

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Mehr von:  Shripad Tuljapurkar, C.Y. Cyrus Chu, Anne H. Gauthier, Springer Verlag GmbH